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Who: Natasha Romanoff & You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: 6/24

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[Transmission starts at the same moment the woman laying in fram shifts from unconsciousness to tense stillness—her eyes open, darting, and she goes tense, but otherwise there's no movement from her for the first four or five seconds. That seems to be how long it takes her to process that she's in an unfamiliar space with no memory of how she came to be lying there. Then one hand balls consciously into a fist. Her eyes flutter. Jaw tightens.

Natasha takes a deep breath and forces her body to relax muscle by muscle.

Seems like spies don't make for great entertainment when they first wake up. Not unless you find tension and veiled suspicious looks riveting. The first minute or two isn't much more than that. She wakes up. She sits up. She swings her legs over the edge of her cot and stretches her back, trying to flex the adrenaline out of her muscles.

She looks directly into the camera at one point, her expression flat, lips tightening in a frown. She taps the edge of the lens experimentally.]

You know, if you're gonna kidnap a girl you could at least buy her dinner first.

[Her voice is just a touch to defiant to be neutral as she speaks.

Then she hauls herself to her feet. The last thing caught on camera before the broadcast ends is a shot of her catsuited figure walking away.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I never said they don't take an interest. I just said that we are more or less left to our devices. Aside from choosing the planets we go to and providing us with basic necessities, as far as I can tell they don't interact or do much with us. But not interacting hardly means they aren't interested in us.

I see the distinction you're making here. Still, it seems like if we're all bored, them we're probably not making for good entertainment.

Well, you know what they say - idle hands and all. And trust me, from what I've seen so far, we make more than enough situations of our own to be interesting. I mean, plenty of us got involved in the plight of the previous planet we were on. Most of us are good people here - we just can't ignore when someone's in trouble.

That's sort of what I mean, though. They know who's on board, and they control where the fleet goes.

They do, as far as I can tell anyways. But like I said - beyond those things, it doesn't seem like they give us anything in particular to work towards.

[Maybe Natasha has a suspicious mind. It's a hazard of being in her line of work. Either way, she has a hard time believing it was coincidence that the fleet ended up where they could play heroes.]

From the sound of it, they don't have to.

[She shakes her head a little even as she finishes saying it; dismissing her own suspicions.]

_{[ Oh, no, Kirk doesn't think it's all coincidence either, Natasha. He
is HIGHLY suspicious, but doesn't have much to back it up beyond said
suspicions. ]}

No, it really doesn't, does it?

_{[ The tone of his voice said quite a lot - that he didn't think it was
all so clandestine and pure as some people might believe, as Atroma would
have them believe. ]}